“The fact that they are mustering the courage to come for help on their own is indeed a paradigm shift.”

Are you ready to get this Prop 8 thing taken care of once and for all? SO ARE WE. We recap today’s closing arguments on the Prop 8 trial on gay marriage in California, with characteristic Autostraddle style and class.

A story about how your tax dollars were used to pay the salary of people taking fighting against the rights of gay families for religious reasons, and there seem to be no consequences for it.

Hello today there is good news re: scholarships for gay kids and also gay marriage and also EUROVISION which is obvs most important. May or may not contain an otter, I can’t make any promises.

“Whatever it was, many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans had had enough.”

I wish we were all in a room so I could say, “If you are LGBTQI, could you please raise your hand if you believe you had room to develop your identity at your preK-12 schools? Your full identity?”

“As an aspiring talk show host who also happens to be a lawyer and a formerly engaged Gay American, I know a lot about the ins and outs of marriage, legally and emotionally.”

Old Navy is making gay t-shirts and Urban Outfitters is making gay people angry and pretty much we shouldn’t shop anywhere, ever, except maybe etsy.

Target is suing a gay rights group for petitioning outside its stores, further complicating its relationship to the gay community.

“Everything that Gov. Walker is doing is ideological,” Pines added. “I don’t see that his administration has any particular respect for the law per se.” Awesome!

This weekend, one third of Michigan Law’s 2011 class walked out of their own graduation ceremony to protest an anti-gay graduation speaker. Lucky for us, Sarah was there for the whole thing.

Google’s got this unannounced “gaydar” feature and someone else has got this “is your son gay?” app and unfortunately, none of them work as well as your gut, ladies.

Incredible things are happening in this world, gay things are happening in this world…

You know how no one ever told you anything about gay people even existing? What if that was the law?

Unless you’re living off the grid in a cabin you built in the woods (and are having this post read to you), you’ve definitely bought something from a store that does business with CGBG.

“There’s so much hate for gays, and lesbians, and transgender people, the thing is, Doc, you seem to be adding to the hate.”

In which anti-gay groups try to explain how boycotting is only okay when they do it.

He’s “a different kind of gay activist.” He’s “a little wilder.” And he’s been working for 3 years to expose the Mormon involvement in the Prop 8 campaign. This may be a Republican even my gay mom could love.

It turns out that the Republicans have no issues with gay people or homophobia at all! Glenn Beck said so. So it’s cool.

Gay marriage, civil union, domestic partnership: when does this annoying process end and when do the bachelorette parties begin?! Am I right?! No, really, am I? Well, believe it or not, there is a shining light in the many debacles and debates raging over gay partnerships in the United States- and it’s gay legislators.